First Baptist Podcast

Nobody builds a sandbag wall alone. In this message from our Nehemiah series, we look at Nehemiah 3, a chapter that names the real people who rebuilt Jerusalem’s wall, gate by gate, side by side. Some built near their own homes. Some refused to put their

What do you do when the ruins around you become normal? Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem to find a wall that had sat broken for 140 years. Everyone had gotten used to it. In this message from Nehemiah 2:11-20, we look at how one leader quietly prepared, told

Nehemiah had to ask his boss, the most powerful king in the world, for something the king had already said no to 16 years earlier. After four months of praying and planning in silence, the door finally opened, and Nehemiah had to decide whether to walk th

We’re starting a new series through the book of Nehemiah, the story of one ordinary man with a burden to rebuild Jerusalem’s broken down walls, and the God who made it possible.In this first message, we trace how Nehemiah fits into the bigger story of Scr

This week we wrap up our “Under Construction” series with a message about hospitality — what it looks like to actually open our lives to people, not just our calendars. We hear the story of building a spare room without knowing who’d ever fill it, and loo